Ishant takes five wickets to bowl out West Indies for 204

By Ashish Shukla
Roseau (Dominica), July 7 (PTI) Ishant Sharma cleaned up
the tail for a five-wicket haul after Harbhajan Singh got to
the 400-wicket mark as India bundled out the West Indies for
204 on the second day of the third and final Test here
Thursday.
Harbhajan became the third Indian and 11th overall to
reach the landmark, while Ishant continued from where he had
left off yesterday, as the duo hastened the West Indies '
collapse at the Windsor Park here.
Just as the West Indian innings folded up, a slight
drizzle again brought the covers on, and an early tea was
taken.
West Indies were in the middle of a revival of sorts when
the gritty Harbhajan claimed two quick wickets.
Though Harbhajan achieved a milestone, the wrecker in
chief was once again Ishant, who claimed five for 77 in yet
another inspirational spell of fast bowling.
West Indies, 128 for five at lunch, began the afternoon
session with a flurry of shots, to entertain a sparse crowd at
the ground.
Carlton Baugh (60) was the aggressor as he flexed his
arms to good effect, and no less than 37 runs came from the
first four overs.
Baugh survived a caught-behind appeal off Munaf Patel but
then decided to cut loose, crashing Ishant for three fours in
one over.
He first produced a back cut, steered the next one over
slips, and then crashed one past the extra cover boundary.
He didn't hold himself back against Munaf Patel either,
managing two fours past the slip cordons.
Meanwhile Bravo, unbeaten on 41 at break, completed his
half century when he flicked Ishant to square leg for a
single.
Bravo though departed to Ishant in dramatic fashion after
he had put on 59 runs for the sixth wicket with Baugh.
In a tense Sharma over, he first edged a delivery to
slips where Rahul Dravid caught it but promptly indicated he
wasn't sure if he had caught cleanly.
The replays proved that Dravid hadn't caught it cleanly
but Bravo made little use of it, departing in the same over
when he inside edged a catch to Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Bravo made 50 from 134 balls with eight fours and this
was his second successive fifty against the tourists after his
match-saving 73 not out at Kensington Oval last week.
Baugh then found an unlikely support in Darren Sammy as
the two added 41 runs for the seventh wicket.
Sammy, as he had indicated before the start of the match,
looked to play down the ground before plonking Ishant for a
big six.
Harbhajan ended Sammy's innings, having him caught at
forward short leg for 20 and later, clean bowled Baugh (60)
for his 400th wicket.
Baugh played only 79 balls during his knock and hit six
fours and a six.
This is Harbhajan's 96th Test and he follows Anil Kumble
(619) and Kapil Dev (434) in the exclusive club of 400-wicket
takers for India.
He is the second off-spinner ever in the history of the
game to take 400 scalps after Muthiah Muralitharan (800).
Sharma then cleaned up Fidel Edwards and Ravi Rampaul's
innings for his second successive five-wicket haul in Tests.